Definitions of Fascism - Charles Maurras

Charles Maurras

Charles Maurras, leader of the far-right reactionary Action Francaise praised fascism, describing it as the following:

What in fact is Fascism? A socialism emancipated from democracy. A trade unionism free of the chains of the class struggle had imposed on Italian labour. A methodical and successful will to bring together in a same fascio all the human factors of national production...A determination to approach, to threat, to resolve the worker question in itself...and to unite unions in corporations, to coordinate them, to incorporate the proletariat into the hereditary and traditional activities of the historical State of the Fatherland. —Charles Maurras

While Maurras praised fascism as a positive development, he claimed that it was an incomplete form of the ideal integral nationalism that Maurras promoted.